Presentation by Wim Naudé of UNU-WIDER addressing issues of vulnerability and resilience at the United Nations Global Pulse Data and Analytics Workshop in Tarrytown, USA, 8-10 September 2010.

1. Whose Global Pulse: Diagnosing Sickness or Health? Wim Naudé UNU-WIDER Global Pulse Workshop, Tarrytown, USA, 8-10 September 2010.

7. The exhorbitant cost of recent disasters Impacts of the Food, Fuel and Financial Crises on Selected Global Development Indicators (Source: Adapted from Heady et al., 2009:14) (Note: a Taken from Friedman and Schady, 2009; b Based on the ILO (2009a) worst case scenario forecast)

8. The exhorbitant cost of the financial crisis

9. UNU-WIDER thinking about human wellbeing

16. Examples: ‘Intervention index’ for South Africa Source: Naudé, W.A. , McGillivray, M. and Rossouw, S. (2009). ‘Measuring the Vulnerability of Sub-National Regions’, Oxford Development Studies , Sept. 37 (3): 249-276.

20. Vulnerability to Poverty and Resilience focusing on the household Source : Naudé, Wim, Santos-Paulino, Amelia and Mark McGillivray, eds. 2009. Vulnerability in Developing Countries . Tokyo: UNU Press

21. Responding to Vulnerability, a Generic Approach Source : Naudé, Wim, Santos-Paulino, Amelia and Mark McGillivray, eds. 2009. Vulnerability in Developing Countries . Tokyo: UNU Press

22. Example: Vulnerability and resilience in Africa during the financial crisis -1

23. Example: Vulnerability and resilience in Africa during the financial crisis -2 Source : Naudé, W.A. (2010). Africa And The Global Economic Crisis: A Risk Assessment And Action Guide. RSCAS Working Paper no 2010/27 , European University Institute, Florence.

25. Thank you!